Thyreophagus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acaroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Oribatida Infraordo: Desmonomata Cohort: Astigmata Subordo: Acaridia Superfamilia: Acaroidea

Familia: Acaridae
Subfamilia: Rhizoglyphinae
Tribus: Thyreophagini
Genus: Thyreophagus
Species: T. australis – T. corticalis – T. cracentiseta – T. entomophagus – T. plocepasseri – ...

Name

Thyreophagus Rondani, 1874

Synonyms

Moneziella Berlese, 1897
Fumouzea Zachvatkin, 1953 [syn. Klimov (1998: 4)]
Michaelopus Fain & Johnston, 1974 [Domrow, 1992: 1484 (Syn. nov.)]

References

Barbosa, M.F. De C., OConnor, B.M. & Moraes, G.J. de 2016. A new species of Thyreophagus (Acari: Acaridae) from Brazil, with notes on species associated with stored food and human habitats and a key to species of this genus. Zootaxa 4088(2): 279–291. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.2.9 Reference page.
Domrow, R. 1992: Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate taxonomy, 6: 1459–1606. DOI: 10.1071/IT9921459
Fain, A. 1982: Revision des genres Thyreophagus Rondani, 1874 et Michaelopus Fain & Johnston, 1974 (Acari, Acaridae) avec description de neuf especes nouvelles. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, entomologie, 54(7): 1–47.
Fain, A.; Johnston, D. 1974: Three new species of hypopi phoretic on springtails (Collembola) in England (Acari: Acaridiae). Journal of natural history, 8: 411–420. DOI: 10.1080/00222937400770341
Klimov, P.B. 1998: A new tribe of acarid mites of the subfamily Rhizoglyphinae (Acariformes, Acaridae). Far Eastern entomologist, (59): 1–19. PDF
Klimov, P.B. 1998: Michaelopus longiretinalis sp. n. (Acari, Acaridae), a new species of acaroid mite associated with beetle Onthophagus lenzi (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from South Korea. Acarina, 6(1-2): 17–19. PDF
Klimov, P.B., Mwangi, E., Merckx, J., Duarte, M.V.A., Wäckers, F.L. & Vangansbeke, D. 2020. Thyreophagus plocepasseri sp. n., a new parthenogenetic species of acarid mites (Acariformes: Acaridae) from Kenya. Systematic and Applied Acarology 25(12): 2250–2262. DOI: 10.11158/saa.25.12.8 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

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